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'123456' password exposed chats for 64 million McDonald’s job chatbot applications

a vulnerability in McHire, McDonald's chatbot job application platform, that exposed the chats of more than 64 million job applications

ChatBot's admin panel was protected by weak credentials of a login name "123456" and a password of "123456".

#ParadoxAI #McHire #McDonalds #job #work #artificialintelligence #AI #password #passwords #security #cybersecurity #hackers #hacking

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BleepingComputer · '123456' password exposed chats for 64 million McDonald’s job chatbot applications
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McDonald’s #AI #Hiring #Bot Exposed Millions of Applicants' Data to #Hackers Using the #Password ‘123456’

Basic #security flaws left the personal info of tens of millions of McDonald’s job-seekers #vulnerable on the “McHire” site built by #AI software firm Paradox.ai.
> just because they’re big doesn’t mean they can’t do something stupid
#paradoxai #mcdonalds #mchire #privacy #123456

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WIRED · McDonald’s AI Hiring Bot Exposed Millions of Applicants' Data to Hackers Using the Password ‘123456’By Andy Greenberg
AI chatbot’s simple ‘123456’ password risked exposing personal data of millions of McDonald’s job applicants Security researchers found two flaws in an AI-powered chatbot used by McDonald...

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